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Maddow accuses NOM of ‘uncredited, anti-gay Photoshopping’

By | 10.26.11 | 2:44 pm

UPDATED Oct. 27, 2:40 p.m. EST: Amended with a correction* and update

UPDATE: The National Organization for Marriage has since removed from its website the image that is the subject of this article.

A photo doctored by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in a new campaign to overturn More…

N.H. House committee votes to overturn marriage equality

By | 10.26.11 | 11:24 am

The New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday in favor of repealing the Granite State’s 15-month marriage-equality law, according to the Associated Press.

NOM trying to appeal to anger over Wall Street to raise money for its N.Y. PAC

By | 10.24.11 | 1:34 pm

In its ongoing fundraising campaign targeting four Republican New York state senators who jumped party lines to vote in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage this past summer, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is shopping the narrative that the senators were bought by New York City Mayor Michael More…

Oregon group considers using ballot to legalize same-sex marriage

By | 10.17.11 | 12:06 pm

As more states consider amending their constitutions next year to prohibit gay men and lesbians from marrying, one state, Oregon, is considering the opposite tactic — overturning a constitutional gay-marriage ban.

NOM goes after GOP’s Ros-Lehtinen for supporting repeal of DOMA

By | 09.28.11 | 12:57 pm

In its latest appeal for donations, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is calling on supporters to fund a new campaign that targets U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) for her recent decision to co-sponsor the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). 

Former NOM chair Maggie Gallagher heading up new ‘Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance’

By | 09.23.11 | 12:37 pm

The new leadership change at the National Organization for Marriage announced Thursday has provoked curiosity and speculation as to why Maggie Gallagher was swapped out for constitutional lawyer John Eastman to serve as NOM’s board chairman. 

Firebrand Maggie Gallagher steps down at the National Organization for Marriage

By | 09.22.11 | 5:33 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Image by: Matt MahurinShe has been a fierce presence in the trenches of national culture wars over the past few years but now Maggie Gallagher, National Organization for Marriage co-founder and chairman of the board, is stepping down. NOM announced Gallagher will be replaced by John Eastman, legal defender of social conservative More…

Maryland Del. Burns pressures churches, blacks to oppose marriage-equality bill

By | 09.07.11 | 12:09 pm

Image by: Matt MahurinUnsatisfied with how Maryland’s religious community campaigned against same-sex-marriage legislation that died in the state House of Delegates in 2011, Del. Emmett C. Burns, Jr., is taking matters into his own hands.

NOM awards Bachmann ‘A’ for abortion views in S.C. presidential forum

By | 09.06.11 | 12:49 pm

Monday’s much-anticipated Palmetto Freedom Forum, held in Columbia, S.C., was an opportunity for the country’s leading anti-gay-marriage group, National Organization for Marriage (NOM), to continue forcing candidates to articulate their positions on same-sex marriage at the federal level; however, the issue that really stole the show was abortion, More…

Upcoming DeMint presidential forum co-chaired by NOM founder

By | 08.30.11 | 2:24 pm

The GOP presidential forum Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) will host in Columbia, S.C., on Labor Day will be co-hosted by the original founding chair of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), which since the successful Proposition 8 campaign of 2008 in California, has raised and spent millions of dollars More…